Aside from singing, I'm also a dancer. I've been dancing since I was 8.
I was serious about ballet for a long time, but my mom got me into tap and jazz and modern and hip-hop, and I was one of those over-lessoned children.
I did ballet, tap, jazz, modern, I taught dance here in my hometown of St. Louis.
I always want to have more dancers in my company.
A friend of my mother's, Irene Lopez, was a Spanish dancer. She saw me bopping around the room and said to my mother, 'Rosita might have talent. Can I take her to my dance teacher?' There was no thought of a career at that time, but I knew I loved the attention, and that's so much a part of being a performer.
When I was younger, I used to want to be, like, a back-up dancer, and my mom was like, 'Well, you know, you can do that, but you might want to choose another career.'
I was married to a dancer who had a dance company in New York City, and she toured.
I've always wanted to be a professional dancer, I'd always wanted to be a ballerina. I trained for 13 years but it never came to be.
I started dancing when I was about four, and my mother put me into dancing school, and I did every type of dance there is.
I love Abby Lee Miller. Honestly, if there's such a thing as past lives, I was definitely a dancer.
I came from a dance background, so that's what I did my whole teenage years. I was at the dance studio a lot. It just becomes your social scene and part of your life.
My friends and I had taken dancing lessons, although none of us would ever admit it. In those depression days, a friend of my mother was trying to make a living by teaching dancing in the evening, in an upstairs dance studio. There was a back door to the place, and she arranged it so the young men could come up through the back way without being seen.
Who is Savion Glover? Who is that guy? Good question. I'm a lot of things... Intense... Focused.
I grew up studying dance, taking ballet lessons.
I haven't danced since I stopped at 28. I haven't even taken a class.
I teach jazz dancing and I can be a guest teacher whenever I want.
I went away when I was 9 to a ballet school. I thought I wanted to be a dancer, but eight years of ballet cured me of that.
I danced for, like, 11 years at bar mitzvahs and executive parties. I'm a professional energy producer. I produce energy, baby.
I walk into a large white room. It's a dance studio in midtown Manhattan. The room is clean, virtually spotless if you don’t count the thousands of skid marks and footprints left there by dancers rehearsing. Other than the mirrors, the boom box, the skid marks, and me, the room is empty.
My dad photographed a lot of beautiful dancers. My mom was a dancer.
The society girl meets more dangers than the girl on the stage. There is more danger at a tango tea than in the theatre. The actor is less dangerous than the dancing master.
One day I got to meet him because he was teaching Broadway dance. It was a little after Tap came out and he was very young. He wouldn't remember me, but it was quite amazing. And now I've met him as an adult!
I always wanted to teach dance. I didn't know I'd have a TV career.
I have lots of interests, but it's true that dancing is a very full-time job.
I am thankful that 'Jhalak' made me a professional dancer now from just a 'barat' dancer.
